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Did Hitler's genes kill Rosa Luxemburg? Did Hitler's evil chromosomes send German colonizers to Tanzania in 1884 when Hitler was negative five years old? Maybe the preconditions of fascism need more than a single person's DNA but more research is required.

There's an obsession with painting Hitler as a unique figure whose rise to power and fascist crimes were the result of a confluence of personality disorders, family history, his experiences in WW1. It's mainly a liberal thing because they really need the history of fascism to be the history of singular evil figures, rather than the result of imperialist capitalism eating itself. It would be very useful for the liberal world order to place blame on genetics or individual psychology for the machinations of history. Rather than the consequences of things like economic conditions, imperialism, class struggle, etc

So yeah you've got it right. For the longest time blame was placed on Hitler's supposedly hypnotizing public speaking skills. I guess now extrapolating his gene sequence is supposed to shed light on if being evil or fascist is hereditary, which itself sounds like eugenics

Hey hey this is innacurate to link us to Stalin

we work for George Soros too

Liberals spent most of last year telling me it was of vital importance to vote for a genocide in Palestine

I prefer the country that hasn't invaded anyone in 50 years over the country that's launched an invasion every 18 months

furthermore it's a moot question to ask this of a vegan because vegans often see animals as deserving rights on the level of humans, or at least I believe this based on my personal morals. So it's like asking why I simply don't eat human corpses. Or to make the analogy even more horrible, why I don't eat the corpses of executed prisoners.

I hear stuff like this so often as a vegan. I get asked why I don't wear leather, since the animal was already killed for its meat, so I might as well make use of its skin. Just yesterday I got asked why I won't consume dairy because "the cows like being milked. It hurts the cow if they're not milked."

God forbid I try my best to reduce animal suffering. I know it's not going to amount to a lot if I'm just an individual making consumer decisions, which is why I don't treat veganism like that. It's not a diet or a clothing style, it's a demand for the end of animal suffering. And to that end I'll try my best even if it makes my life personally difficult or annoying.

The only way I've been able to explain veganism to carnists is to ask them if they'd eat a dead baby, or wear their dead mother's skin. But even that's not very effective. I don't know how to explain that animals are living beings who deserve life and dignity, same as humans. Because part of the problem I run into is needing to explain that humans deserve life and dignity. It's hard explaining to a typical American carnist that cows shouldn't be forcefully bred or used as a milk production factory when the same person believes homeless people all deserve to die.

Yeah apparently there's metallic nitrogen in the Earth's core

yeah that's why I don't feel good about it, because it's taking a comic about queer persecution, removing the queer elements, and then replacing the same argument except with political identity. That's not something I'm comfortable with

i kind of don't like how this edit is conflating queer identity with political affiliation. The original strip depicts two transphobes, one side queer (the "LGB" alliance, ugh) and the other one a reactionary maga type. Yes it's true that liberals/reactionaries will betray leftists, but that's not exactly the same thing as persecution of queer people and it does make me uncomfortable to see this conflation.

yeah i have a bachelor's in chemistry and I remember a professor earnestly saying the phrase "metallic phase nitrogen" and I think I went home and stared at the ceiling for an hour

The greatest measurable increase in life expectancy and quality of life happened in China during the second half of the 20th century, during which it developed from backwater feudalism to centrally planned socialism.

The greatest measurable reduction in life expectancy and quality of life occured in former Soviet countries in the 1990s, where they devolved from centrally planned socialism to internationally financed capitalism.